How to made now film history? This is the question that this work want to answer, from the necessity of to explain again this history and its perspectives. Instead "history", we propose to make a "story", because all this it's about a text that somebody elaborates and explains, as always occurs. From where make today this "film story"? Of course, from the investigation on concepts of "history" and "melancholy", that fix the suitable base for the discovery of the operation modes of this story from mid-fifties of twenty century, when a certain cinema -american cinema, above all introduce its conscience in some environments -the french cinephilia of that moment, mainly and starts to tell things by himself. And in which way to find the modus operandi of this story? Searching in films and discovering the links that unites it, the trends that forms, the nets that builds and comes to the present, when it seems to exists a kind of limit. To give tools and to put it to work, like in a model, in order to re-think that what we call "film history".